What do you like best about your home town?

Question

What do you like best about your home town?

Answer 1

I never had a "home" town. I was in an orphanage

and I don't call that home. I have my own little apartment now all fixed up nice n cozy and this is my 1st home to me.

Answer 2

It won the American City award. Every year when they have their Veterans Day Parade it is attended by 1/2 the population. Which is about 48,000. Per ca-pita Porterville, CA had the most lives lost in the Vietnam war. This is a town that supports its Veterans and has a park dedicated to them. Our high schools all have award winning marching bands. They have marched in the Rose Parade and the Hollywood Christmas parade a number of times. Porterville High School has been invited to play at the White House. I guess you could say this is a town that loves a parade and its people.

Answer 3

I life in Redlands, CA and the history here is awesome. It was named Redlands because of the red clay like dirt. The people are for the most part very well educate - population of around 50,000 people. Much art, crafts, downtown market nights, many orange groves, and the Mormons actually founded the town over 100 years ago. The layout of the streets are north/south - east/west. Have the County Museum here and many live theaters , and a 20 screen multiplex theater, fantastic variety of restaurants, the people are friendly for a town this size, low crime and as an added bonus about 50 miles to the beach, Los Angeles, 30 miles to Palm Springs, great roads and live 4,7 miles to work (one way). Education is fantastic here, we have the University of Redlands, 2 top rated High Schools, Middle level schools, with the added bonus of Loma Linda University 6 miles away. I just love living here, although housing prices are high, my wife and I are thinking of moving about 10 miles to the east of here where you get a greater home for the dollar value wise.

Answer 4

Family and lifelong friends who are like family live here.! Everyone either knows everyone or they know someone who does.



Small town atmosphere that is getting larger with the influx of businesses coming to the area and creating jobs, providing diversity and boosting our economy. Along with the "big businesses" coming our way, we have many locally owned restaurants, bakeries, bike shops and specialty stores makes my home town unique and welcoming to visitors and people wanting to relocate



With the rapid growth of industry, we have many people accompanying the businesses who are used to having a variety in restaurants and entertainment. Within the last five to ten years we added to some of our already existing wonderful restaurants of Buck Owens Crystal Palace, Rosa's Pizzeria, Mexicali and The Great Castle, several new eateries such as The Elephant Bar, P.F. Chang's, Outback Steakhouse, California Pizza Kitchen and Logan's Roadhouse Grill.



We have an arena in town that hosts many sporting events and concerts from the Lakers Pre Season matches to Elton John and Disney On Ice Shows. The arena is also the home of our semi pro hockey and basketball teams and our Division I Men's College Basketball Team.



If you like a more intimate venue, we have a theater originally built in the 1930's that was recently restored to it's original grandeur which has hosted jazz concerts, comedy shows and is now also being utilized for weddings and other gatherings.



I love my hometown. It's a great place to raise a family!

Answer 5

I don't have one. I'm actually from no where and i've lived everywhere. I wish i knew what it was like to have a "Home Town".

Answer 6

It's nice, small and quiet. It's a nice community with friendly people and good restaurants. There is a lot of history in this town since it celebrates cheese days every September.

Answer 7

Nothing

Answer 8

I like that my home town, Portland ME., is true to it's heritage. Also the local gov't tries to give everyone a fair shake.

Answer 9

everything is in walking distance and there is alot of places near by. Hospital, shopping stores, video/movie theaters/stores, bike paths, places to hang out, fields

Answer 10

The fact that my close family and many of my friends live their.



I think that there are quite alot of nice people where i live but there are also some not so nice ones no too far away. The history of the town is never something that has interested me perticularly so i've never paid alot of attention to it.



It's a nice area, has a good school, places to play football (when they're not flooded because of rain), and some good shops, cinema, bowling not too far away.



Overall it's a nice place to live and it's fairly quiet - which is bliss compared to the city centres. I wouldn't be too pleased to live right in the centre of any big town.

Answer 11

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Answer 12

I like the fact that we had a real Trojan Horse thing going on here a while ago now.

I live in Breda, a small city in the south of Holland (The Netherlands).

When the Spanish came here and invaded our country and also our little town was emptied of it's citizens and given to the Spanish army. But in 1590 our voivode came up with the idea to hide men in a ship filled with peat. Peat was delivered weekly to the town as fuel for the fires. So the men hid under the peat and were brought into town where they came out and defeated the Spanish army. They opened the gates and the rest of the Dutch came in.

Cool huh? It's what marks our town as special.

So that's why I like it, it's a great story to tell peope when they visit. PLus our town has a new harbour now and it's really pretyy with a cafés and restaurant by the water.

Answer 13

Good Afternoon Mike,



My home town is Chicago, Illinois and I hardly know where to start, but the best place is with Lake Michigan. To say that the lakefront is magnificent is an understatement. It takes my breath away and I have seen it hundreds of times. I am a Cub fan and I can attest that there is no other ballpark in baseball like Wrigley Field. None. Not anywhere. There is no other experience like being a Cub fan, either. The Art Institute is sensational. The Magnificent Mile (Michigan Avenue) lives up to its name. Our public transportation system is second to none, despite the worst efforts of our political structure to ruin it. We have a superb night life as well. We have any kind of music one could want, featuring rock, country, folk (what's left of it), blues, and a world class symphony. We have every recreational acivity one could imagine. We have a vibrant theater community. We have the Museum Of Science And Industry, The Field Museum Of Natural History, The Adler Planetarium, The Shedd Aquarium and a revitalized Navy Pier. As a matter of fact, every time I think of taking a vacation I don't know where to go- everything is already here. This town is diamonds, if I do say so myself.

Answer 14

Well... a lot, actually. I was born in a little miner town, in NW Romania, called Baia Mare. Baia means Mine and Mare means Great. There were quite a few gold mines around, but this was the biggest of all. So, they called in the Great Mine. It's on a 7000ft elevation and surrounded by the most famous mountains - for their ski resorts. Albeit pretty rustic at that. It's a chain of mountains that are called Carpathians, there, but in the original they're called "The little Alps".

Along the city there are many places that were quite wild and hiking trails along virgin territory. Inside the city old and new architecture intermingles. You have the old side of town with paved roads built by the Roman Empire - (with the specific rocks), old churches, dating about 1000 years old.. and all that. I love the cheese that the shepherds make there. It's called cas (read: kash) and it's the best thing after pizza.

I love the parks, and the historical statues, but most of all I love my history that binds me to that place. I haven't been there for at least 20 years, but the trees along the drive that leads to my old place, are still there. Amazing, no?

Then it's the coffee you get at the coffee shops, and the pastries, you have never knows pastries until you had those.

I love this particular tree, called tillia. It's leaves and flower are therapeutic, they are used to make tea, that is considered a good remedy for a lot of stress related conditions, plus quite the anti- inflammatory. Every weed there has healing properties. And the superstitions of the people give them this mystic air of fantasia land.

The people are a great community oriented unit. It's like that song of the "Afrikan Children's Choir" - "It takes a whole village to raise a child" kind of a thing.

If you see some perversion from the norm and you call those bastards on it. Nobody falls through the cracks. :))

Communism robbed the country for 45 years, but never manages to imprison the spirit of the people. The Latin temperament, the aged precious wisdom, the tradition and proverbs and age old quotes that nobody claims as their own, passed from generation to generation... all those clishee's that help shape one's world and personality. People put a lot of thought into their wardrobe. Every traditional piece of clothing has a very specific and meaningful purpose. All to the boots, and scarf so to speak. With the head piece, for example, the way you wear it, tells the age of a woman. For example, if you're over 50 you tie the knot in the front. If you're very young, you have a small one, and tie it in the back. There's a certain way you wear that head piece that lets people know you're available for marriage... I don't remember it. :)) Also the bigger the triangle, the older a person is...

So... all that... for centuries. I miss that.

Excellent question!!

Answer 15

I like how small it is. I can call my friend and meet her on the other side of town in a real short amount of time. Traffic is never a problem. I also like the people. They're so laid back and friendly. You can make a conversation with just about anyone at any place. So at school when I was away from my friends, I could turn around and chat with the people around me and make a new friend pretty quick.



With the small size and friendly people, I always look forward to going back home. It brings such a relief to get away for a week from current home located in a large and busy city.

Answer 16

My Home Town: Where is it?

Is it the town I was born in and spent the first 14 years of my life?

Is it the town I spent the next 8 years of my life, graduated from high school, started college, had my first job, joined the military, have the most relatives in?

Is it the City that I went to after military service and started my life after the Viet Nam conflict was over, where I got married.

Which of these 3 cities is it?

Where I was born? I went back for a visit to see my mother because it was her home town and she moved back there after her marriage failed and so I went for a visit. I should have graduated from High School and started college there but we moved. When I visited again, it was 5 years later, and I did not recognize the place. The houses that I had grown up in had been torn down. The streets were different. The city limits were gone. Our farm was a shopping center.

It was not anything like the small city I had grown up in.

And frankly, even though I sometimes dream about it, I no longer liked the place.

The City I became a Young man in? It was a big city and I did like it. I still like it.; But it does not take part in my dream life. My relatives are all there, even the ones from my birth town. They all get along and get together more frequently than I write to them. They even talk on the phone, a habit that I could never develop. A lovely place but I doubt that I will ever go there again.

The Army was a rebirth experience. The young man who went in came out a troubled soldier who cared more about politics than about his own life. What was left of life was lived around church, school and politics. Nixon was the one. He got the blame for the war, for the aftermath, for the commies, for all of it and the Democrats who started the whole thing were only too happy to point to "tricky Dickie" and blame it all on him. Such hatred and all because Nixon proved over and over that the Democrats were power hungry crazies who time and time again were wrong and set the world on fire rather than building up a great nation. Without Nixon we would be a third world nation today. Without the Democrats, we would not have 3rd world nations today.

a french joke has the punch line "if my son was not a socialist by 20 I would disown him, if he was still a socialist by his 30/s then I would disown the fool."

My 3 home towns raised me to be what I am, although I am sure they would have been and are horrified at the result.

I was a patriot in my teens, still a patriot til my late 20's, convinced by the war and the army to be a socialist in my later 20's and early 30's, and became a liberal libertarian in my late 30's.

I still believe in the Lord God and his son Yesua. I recognize the need for the holy catholic church, just not the Romans.

I love Truth and our Jeffersonian Washington Republic. I hate the Federalist leader Alexander Hamilton.

My spell checker changed "Demoncrats" to Democrats, and refused to spell "Viet Nam" or the name of the son of God. A sad commentary on the state of Yahoo or the state of our country.

Pete

Answer 17

There are so many things to like about San Diego like the beach, the diversity, the shopping and the people, but I would say the best the best thing is the weather. It is almost always warm here.



Just a few days ago, I saw a story with a couple of pictures on the front page of the. One pictured showed people riding bycicles in 70-degree weather on a board walk in Pacific beach, where my parents group up. The other picture was of a guy in New Hampshire that was shoveling snow off of his roof.

Answer 18

With every day pass, our country is getting into more and more trouble. The inflation, unemployment and falling value of dollar are the main concern for our Government but authorities are just sleeping, they don’t want to face the fact. Media is also involve in it, they are force to stop showing the real economic situation to the people. I start getting more concern about my future as well as my family after watching the response of our Government for the people that affected by hurricane Katrina.



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Answer 19

Everything! I live in a small-ish city dwarfed by the metroplex surrounding it. It's small enough that you can't go to Walmart, Kroger, or McDonald's without running into someone you know, but at the same time, it's big enough that it has everything you need to live. If you want to live a to-myself-life, it has the space you need to do that. And if there's anything we want that's not in our town, like I said we're dwarfed by the BIG cities.

The people are really nice, and (as mentioned before) you always run into them when you're running errands or something. But at the same time, with a population of 30,000, there's always more people to meet!

The restaurants are great; unlike alot of towns now-a-days we actually have home based restaurants. Like for instance, there's Larry's Diner, which is still 'family owned and operated' and which I seriously think was the first restaurant out here. Then there's places like The Colony Best Buffet and Java Haus, who's owner I personally know, one of whom goes to church with me. (Guess where MY church goes on Wednesday nights?! ;] ) At the same time, there's the balance of having franchises like Mickey D's, BurgerKing, Whataburger, Wendy's, and others.

And I'm also proud of our little history. I live in DFW area, and this is just gonna blow your mind, but Dallas is actually a suburb of my little 30,000 + city!!! Dallas, Texas vs. The Colony (which probably none of you have heard of...)! The Land Deed Office (I think it was called that) used to be located in my little small town before some farmers burned it down in the Hedgecox War. (They were upset that the government was coming in and dividing up the land and stuff.) We had ALOT of land back then, but as time went by we sold the land to other cities (the ones I mentioned earlier). Around 30 years ago, we officially became The Colony: City by the Lake. (Before then, it was called Peter's Colony, after the person who founded it. People called it 'The Colony', and it just stuck.) Now we're just a little town by a big (and dangerous) lake called Lake Lewisville. (But the 'dangerous' part is a whole other story...) Oh, another interesting fact: due to DFW and Love Field airports, ALL airplanes landing in either of those two airports (which is ALOT!) cross over my town. When my dad used to go on business trips, he would tell us when to go outside so we could wave hello or goodbye. And other than two times, every time he saw us.

So yeah, sorry for being so long, but that's the story of my small town/city.

Answer 20

I Love My Town

Answer 21

My hometown is Crown City, OH. This is a great little town with a couple of restaurants and a gas station within walking distance. Not much crime here and a beautiful town.

Answer 22

I don't think i have a hometown to tell the truth. I've moved so much (about 14 or 15 times in the past 14 years, i think, i lost count.) anyway, the place were i was born i guess i could call my hometown because my grandparents and dad live there. I don't like the town much because almost everyone who lives their are mean and old. it smells bad too but i can't complain to much because my family lives there and i love them.

Answer 23

Hello Ask Mike

Nice to have you again

I have lived in Saskatoon,

Saskatchewan which is in Canada

most of my life.

This is what I like best about my hometown

its the history.

1906 Saskatoon became a city

in that time there is much history



1905 Saskatchewan became a province

in the one hundred years that is alot to convince.

Answer 24

The settings and the people. I come from a small town deep south in Texas called Tomball. I loved our neighborhood. People were always friendly and very welcoming. I also like our location, it was always nice and warm, sunny, beautiful, and there were lots of creeks and water holes around for us to go hangout at.

Answer 25

Definitely the history. Lots of old homes and very friendly town. Good place to raise children and moderately priced and fairly close to big city so commute is good if you need to go to the city.

Answer 26

The local colleges and the bookstores and libraries. Within 100 miles of home there are three community colleges (one of which I attend through a college-high school advanced study program), four distance learning colleges with classes on the campuses of the community colleges, and two state universities. It's the same thing with the libraries and bookstores, there are a lot of them not too far away (which is always nice when you are working on school homework).

Answer 27

The hot men!! Bellevue, WA is not my home town, but I learned to love it. Not only am I surrounded by well educated working professionals, but the crime rates are very low (or nothing bad occurs like New York or San Francisco). Some of the restaurants here are upscale & I like being surrounded by classy people (low-life people just cause trouble).

Answer 28

Hi Ask Mike,



I like my home town because it is small and everybody knows everybody. There's no hiding yourself here. It's nice, quiet, cozy and safe. The neighbors will always keep an eye out for your property if you are away. It's like a security system that's free. The people are always very friendly. They greet you with a smile and they are polite and respectful.

Answer 29

My mother was living in San Jose, when she was pregnant of me. They had just came to the United States from Mexico with papers. Before my mom had me, she moved to a small city named "Newark." When my mom had me, she had me in San Jose. I was raised for ten years in Newark. But I always called San Jose my home town. For the awesome libraries, and food restaurants over there.

Answer 30

I really like my hometown.Actually my hometown is in Guyana.Guyana is located in South America.It's the only speaking english country over there.I love it because I know alot of people there,and It's peaceful.It's also very fun,and the weather is tropical!

Answer 31

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Answer 32

I don't live in the US but I'll answer this question anyway...



I love Melbourne Australia for the culture, the diverse nationalities and the historic places.





I also LOVE the cold weather.





Oh and Melb has the BEST FOOD too lol.

Answer 33

Restaurants at Bangalore India.

Answer 34

I live in a small town in Iowa, and the folks are super friendly and are ALWAYS willing to help each other out. It's very quiet, and a very safe place to live.

Answer 35

Because it's the home of my favorite college football team. The OSU Buckeyes.



OK, technically it's not my "hometown," but I only live one city away from Columbus.

Answer 36

what i like best about my home town is that it is the home to the Soupbox Derby. it's full of history about that sport and when it is summer and th sport is going on we get TUNS of poeple here! that makes Ellet a popular place.

the other thing i love about my home town is that i know most of the poeple in it. because most of them go to my church! thats whta i like about my home town!

Answer 37

Home of Yuengling

Answer 38

I like the sense of nostalgia I get by simply walking outside, along with the quiet serenity and kind population.

Answer 39

It's not too big and not too small. not too dirty, it's right on the lake, everything is within short drive. lots of freeways, but not right on top of you, lots of culture and history if you look.. people aren't jaded, it's a good mix of blue-collar and white collar..

Answer 40

Taco Delight in Paris, TX

Answer 41

I Like that it quiet!! Alot of ppl call it hood..ghetto..BuT I dont see dat at all!! I think itz rele borein!!! Itz good thoo! All da resturantz r good! Da parkz r clean..etc...

Answer 42

I like the people and places in my hometown.its very calm and nice weather.

Answer 43

The resturants are great. great food and great atmosphere. I love the Botanical gardens and all the art galleries.

Melbourne - Australia.

Answer 44

my hometown is Washington dc

i just love the sights...it never gets old even though i see them everyday im proud of being from the nations capitol!!

Answer 45

It's nice quiet and clean and they have some really nice resturants here too.

Answer 46

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Answer 47

It's one of the best city for jobs!!!!

Answer 48

what i "love" about my hometown is the fact that it is has been called the "Bush capital of the world" by the man himself

Answer 49

Family and Friends, The Climate and the mountains.

Answer 50

I like the Water= Bay same thing!!!

Answer 51

Being there which I'm not. I'm from Cottonwood, AZ but now living in Nebraska. I love the desert, the people from there. Thanks, now I'm homesick!

Answer 52

Small and quiet

Answer 53

honeyhut in ohio honeyhut has ice cream instead of sugar they use u gussed it HONEY

Answer 54

the reason I best like my hometown(dunkirk)is also the reason I hate it!!!everybody knows everybody!!!!

Answer 55

i like the people,they are warm and loving care!!

Answer 56

everything about it it home !

Answer 57

I have many hometowns and they are all the same to me IMO

People are the same everywhere thanks to consumerism

Answer 58

The exit routes.

Answer 59

the silent



the trees



the air



and Love love love

:)

Answer 60

i beleive the weather and nature

Answer 61

YOU don't live there!....lol just kidding...

Answer 62

hell